Perspective Check

Today I was taking part in the prayer study on my good friend, Wendy Blights blog. There was a question that really stood out to me on Luke 10:38-42

 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”

   41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one.^[a^] Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

This spoke to me in a very clear way…the Lord has been speaking to me about this quietly for the past couple of weeks… as always, I chose not to listen and I find myself getting to the point of being overwhelmed.

I am such a perfectionist and feel like I have to pack my schedule full of things to keep myself busy. I try to reprioritize and keep life a little simpler…then within a couple weeks it’s back to crazy again. I don’t like it that way because I don’t have time to spend with Jesus and that is THE MOST important part. In the verse He said “Mary has chosen what is better” she chose to sit at Jesus’ feet and spend time with Him, rather than doing the work FOR Him. That’s hard for me. I love outreach and to do things for others, so I am all about jumping at the chance to help… but I need to learn when to say No.

When I came back from El Salvador in October it was a perspective check. The El Salvadorians live such a simple life and yet are so very happy & have such a strong faith… I want that, I want to have a simple schedule with time to spend with Jesus & my family. I want to be able to love Jesus as much as I possibly can. While my schedule is packed full of things, that can’t happen. I can love Him a little and praise Him a little… but not really delve deeper into our relationship.

What things in your life need a necessary ending? (Henry Clouds new book… it’s great, you should get it)

What things in your life need to be put on the back burner so that Jesus is not?

And like I said, just because you are doing work FOR Jesus, doesn’t mean you are spending time WITH Jesus.

I think it's time for a perspective check and some necessary pruning…